A war launched to dismantle Iran's nuclear program has paused with Iran's enriched uranium stockpile intact and the Strait of Hormuz unresolved. Dr. Sina Azodi assesses the Islamabad MOU: why any final deal will structurally resemble the JCPOA, why Iran's security-minded new leadership has stronger incentives to pursue the bomb than before, and why Iran emerges from the war more confident than before.

In a new Wikistrat report, seven leading Iran experts assess Tehran's new doctrine of fusing Lebanon and Iran into a single battlespace, the Trump-Netanyahu gap test, the escalation ladder, and the 48-hour indicators that will define the rest of the year

The Victory Day parade on Red Square went ahead this year without tanks for the first time since 2008, the hardware replaced by giant screens and mobile internet shut down to block Ukrainian drones. Wikistrat surveyed eight leading Russia specialists on whether Putin's grip is genuinely fracturing or just visibly strained. The panel's verdict: erosion is real, rupture is not, and the one variable Western policy cannot touch may matter most.